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‘Kidnapped’ Director’s Post-Apocalyptic ‘Welcome To Harmony’: “’28 Days Later’ Meets a John Carpenter Movie”
While speaking today with Spanish director Miguel Vivas, whose violent home-invasion horror/thriller Kidnapped is being released on VOD June 15th before going on to a limited theatrical release June 17th, we asked him about his upcoming post-apocalyptic horror film Welcome To Harmony, which focuses on a father and daughter who are the sole survivors of a brutal war that destroyed the planet. Find out what he had to say inside.
“We are actually working on the second draft, we just finished the second draft of the script,” he told B-D. “It will be in English. It’s going to be a Spanish, French, and American co-production. We already have the Spanish and French producers on board, and we’re still finalizing the American component.
“It is going to be a horror film in a post-apocalyptic setting. It’s going to be a film about friendship, about hatred, about connection, about sin, about love…about all those issues, but of course with monsters,” he continued. “After that we’re gonna see where it takes us [as far as taking on future projects]. But for the time being, I’m really committed to this project, I’m really working very hard on it, and I’m really happy about how it’s working out. I think it’s really coming together very nicely. It’s…a story told from the characters’ point of view. It will show what happens to them as they are concentrating on their own feelings. It is gonna be, in a way, ’28 Days Later’ meets a John Carpenter movie meets [John Boorman’s] ‘Hell in the Pacific’.”
I mentioned that the project sounded very ambitious, but he downplayed the scope of the endeavor by offering this:
“Of course, you can think it’s very ambitious, but in actuality it’s gonna be very pulled-together, very limited in scope, because it will be told from the point of view of the two characters that are the only two survivors after the Apocalypse,” he explained. “So the whole story will be told always from the way they see it. So we’ll make sure that it is not too out there. It is very confined.”
Given the 28 Days Later comparison, I of course had to ask: is this gonna be another zombie movie? (Note: I get that the infected in that film aren’t technically “zombies”, but just for simplicity’s sake I framed the question that way.)
“There will be a kind of zombie, but it will be sort of an evolution of the zombie,” he offered. “It will be kind of different than what we’re used to seeing.”
Stay tuned to B-D for future updates on the project!
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New Documentaries Explore the Cult Legacies of ‘The Keep’ and ‘Wolfen’; Watch the Trailers Now [Exclusive]
Undersung werewolf gem Wolfen and Michael Mann’s The Keep get the spotlight in a pair of feature documentaries acquired by Antenna Releasing.
A World War II Fairy Tale, which covers the infamous production of and reception to The Keep, will receive a limited theatrical release in October, followed by a TVOD release on Apple/Amazon. The Keep will also screen as a double feature for some showings.
For Uncovering Wolfen, Antenna eyes a limited theatrical release for 2027. Both films are currently available for booking via Antenna prior to their theatrical and digital releases.
Both documentaries are directed by Stewart Buck, who co-helms with Stéphane Piter on A World War II Fairy Tale.
“We at Antenna are obsessed with film history,” said Chief Acquisitions Officer Billy Ray Brewton. “Stewart has done such a remarkable job of really diving into the deepest recesses of how these films were made and, in doing so, has created the definitive histories of both projects.”
“We’re delighted to be partnering with Antenna Releasing!” said director Buck. “It’s refreshing to see a filmmaker-friendly approach to distribution with people who know what it’s like to be in the trenches with independent projects that struggle to find a home in the crowded marketplace.”
Check out our exclusive trailer and poster reveal of both documentaries below.
Released in 1983, Michael Mann’s The Keep was a notorious box office bomb, critically lambasted and all but forgotten for years, save for the fascination with Tangerine Dream’s iconic score. In recent years, the film has enjoyed a bit of a resurgence and is widely considered a cult classic, though director Michael Mann and many cast members refuse to acknowledge it.
Wolfen, on the other hand, was critical success but was overshadowed heavily by its flashier 1981 siblings An American Werewolf in London and The Howling. It’s also a trailblazer for socio-political horror, and the doc will explore that via the craftspeople who made it.
Look for them both in theaters soon. Stay tuned for more as it arrives.
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